Analysis of Provision
Grandpa skins potatoes the old-fashioned way:
paring knife, not the double-edged peeler,
starting up mashed potatoes
for the family dinner.
The earth-grown potatoes
gleam in the basin,
they have maintained the nations
cheap and hearty.
His rough hands have raised
house and family from dirt up,
by meager resource unearthed
his children's glowing faces.
| Scheme | XABA BXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1101001101 1011010110 1011010 1010010 011010 10010 1101010 1010 11111 10100111 1101001 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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